A word on eye contact

Isn't it really awkward when you look up somewhere and you find yourself making eye contact with another stranger at a distance? It is incredibly uncomfortable for me, so usually, I look away. But sometimes, I may not care and just keep my eyes at a fixed position, just to see who will give up first. The backfire is awkward off the scale. If they also decide that they're too lazy to look away, then the situation just got very weird because it looks like you're staring at a stranger and possibly plotting against them or something.

That happened to me at church today, and luckily I didn't go for the staring contest. After those kind of things happen, I feel really weird, and I also try to imagine what's going on in the other person's head and if he/she thought that the situation was weird.

In general, eye contact is a problem for me. I rarely make eye contact with people unless they're pretty good friends or family. But sometimes I can't even make eye contact with THEM. Other times when I'm talking to someone I find myself looking off to the side. I know it's incredibly rude and I know it's a problem; what confuses me is WHY is it a problem? It shouldn't be that hard to look at someone's eyes right? And it's obviously a common problem because in school, teachers always tell you to make eye contact with your audience when you're presenting. I'm not alone, see? Why is this such a problem for us shy-eyes?

I don't have a definite answer, but I do have some theories.

1) People just look intimidating
It's true. Probably 30% of the time I don't make eye contact with people is because of this reason. Many people's eyes just look like hell to others. It's not their fault, but it's an explanation.

2) The shy-eyes are just shy in general
This is what I mean by this: I don't think I'm a shy person unless it comes to eye contact. Just in the area of eye contact I'm shy. Some people are just regular shy. You know what I'm talking about. They always look down on the floor when they walk around, they don't talk unless they have to, and when they do talk it's really, really quiet. Those people might also have a problem with eye contact, because it comes with the whole shy package.

3) Just a rare case
You know, like some people might have autism, which is a social disorder. Other people might just be crazy and think that psychics will have total control over them if they look into their eyes. Maybe some people are just OCD or something and might not be able to look at people's eyes unless they have sunglasses all the time or something.



So yeah, there's my post for the day. I don't know if I should be doing movie reviews regularly now, cuz I already did 2 of them. But I don't watch enough movies to do them regularly. Well, we'll see.

Coming up: Ouran High School Host Club, Beck Mongolian Chop Squad, and maybe some VGs